Today's Agenda

Content Standards:
Students will analyze how history is a series of connected events shaped by multiple cause and effect relationships, tying past to present.
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Learning Target:
I can trace the history of the Chesapeake colonies, and I can describe the labor system that emerged as a result.

Critical Vocabulary: Virginia Company of London, Jamestown, John Smith, Powhatan,“Starving Time,” Pocahontas, John Rolfe, Headright System, Indentured Servant, House of Burgesses, Opechancanough, Lord Baltimore, Maryland Act of Toleration, Chattel Slavery, Navigation Acts, Nathaniel Bacon, Bacon’s Rebellion

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: How did the Spanish, French, and British differ in their treatment of Native Americans? Why?
2. Guided Instruction: The Chesapeake Colonies
3. Reflection Question: What motivated the founding and settlement of the Chesapeake colonies? 

Homework: The Chesapeake Colonies Reading

Tentative Test Date: September 15